The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.